Providence Quotes

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.